Ariel Rittenhouse

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Ariel Rittenhouse Diving
Personal information
Surname: Ariel Cevan's Rittenhouse
Nationality: United StatesUnited States United States
Discipline (s) : Artistic / synchronized jumping
Society: USC Trojans
Birthday: December 9, 1990
Place of birth: Menlo Park, California
Size: 160 cm
Weight: 54 kg
Medals

Ariel Rittenhouse Cevans (* 9. December 1990 in Menlo Park ) is a US-based water jumper . She starts in artificial jumping from the 1 m and 3 m board and in 3 m synchronized jumping. She is trained by Wenbo Chen.

Rittenhouse first trained in a gymnastics club and began diving at the age of seven. She studies at the University of Southern California and starts for the university's sports team, the USC Trojans .

She took part in the World Championships for the first time in Melbourne in 2007 and reached tenth place on the 3-meter board. In the same year she won silver in the 3-meter synchronized jumping with Kelci Bryant at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro . Also at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 she started with Kelci Bryant in the 3-meter synchronized jumping, but narrowly missed a medal in fourth. The duo also started at the 2009 World Championships in Rome and finished sixth, in the individual from the 3-meter board Rittenhouse was fifth.

Her uncle Mike Finneran was also a successful diver who reached the finals at the 1972 Olympic Games from the 3-meter board and the 10-meter tower. Her mother Sharon won, among other things, silver in the 400m medley at the 1964 Olympic Games .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diver Ariel Rittenhouse. Retrieved August 15, 2011 .
  2. ^ Trojans Swimming & Diving - Ariel Rittenhouse. Retrieved August 15, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Rittenhouse, Ariel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rittenhouse, Ariel Cevans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diver
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Menlo Park